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- US teachers take up arms to prevent mass shootings
- Indian rape victim surviving against the odds, Singapore hospital says
- Central African Republic appeals for French help against rebels, Paris balks
- US suspends embassy operations in rebel-hit Central African Republic
- Schwarzkopf, US commander in Gulf War, dies at 78
- Florida man pleads guilty to smuggling dinosaur bones
- Taliban seize 22 Pakistani paramilitary fighters
- Syria envoy calls for political change to end conflict
- After Newtown, Americans want their guns, with some restrictions
- Secret UK files lift lid on Thatcher-Reagan Falklands contacts
- Syria envoy calls for political change to end conflict
- India gang-rape victim battles against the odds: medics
- US economy to continue slow, painful recovery in 2013
- Jewish provocateur skewers Germans in new book
- Festivities
- VIDEO: US winter storm claims more lives
- VIDEO: Anger over priest's violence views
- VIDEO: 2012: Coding, robots and patents
- VIDEO: Choking panda saved by surgery
| Posted: 28 Dec 2012 12:38 AM PST There isn't too much newsworthy stuff of late. Instead, we have seen a whole lot of advertisements as businesses are rushing to promote their products and services last-minute before the year ends. | ||
| US teachers take up arms to prevent mass shootings Posted: 28 Dec 2012 12:34 AM PST Several US states are considering allowing school teachers to carry weapons, and educators, determined not to allow a repeat of the Newtown massacre, are flocking to training sessions. | ||
| Indian rape victim surviving against the odds, Singapore hospital says Posted: 27 Dec 2012 10:36 PM PST SINGAPORE, Dec 28 — An Indian gang-rape victim whose assault in New Delhi triggered nationwide protests earlier this month has suffered "significant brain injury" and is surviving against the odds, the Singapore hospital treating her said today. The 23-year-old medical student, who was severely beaten, raped for almost an hour and thrown out of a ... 
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| Central African Republic appeals for French help against rebels, Paris balks Posted: 27 Dec 2012 10:09 PM PST PARIS, Dec 28 – The president of the Central African Republic appealed yesterday for France and the United States to help push back rebels threatening his government and the capital, but Paris said its troops were only ready to protect French nationals. The exchanges came as regional African leaders tried to broker a ceasefire deal and as rebels ... 
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| US suspends embassy operations in rebel-hit Central African Republic Posted: 27 Dec 2012 10:04 PM PST WASHINGTON, Dec 28 – The United States said yesterday it was suspending operations at its embassy in the Central African Republic as rebels appeared poised to move on the capital of the impoverished but resource-rich nation. US State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said the US embassy had temporarily suspended operations and that the US ... 
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| Schwarzkopf, US commander in Gulf War, dies at 78 Posted: 27 Dec 2012 08:56 PM PST WASHINGTON, 28 Dis – Norman Schwarzkopf Jr, the hard-charging US Army general whose forces smashed the Iraqi army in the 1991 Gulf War, has died at the age of 78, a US official said yesterday. The highly decorated four-star general died at 2.22pm at his home in Tampa, Florida, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The cause of ... 
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| Florida man pleads guilty to smuggling dinosaur bones Posted: 27 Dec 2012 08:51 PM PST NEW YORK, 28 Dis – A Florida man described by federal prosecutors as a "one-man black market in prehistoric fossils" pleaded guilty yesterday to smuggling dinosaur skeletons into the United States. Eric Prokopi was accused of importing and selling stolen artifacts including a nearly complete Tyrannosaurus Bataar skeleton and skeletons of a ... 
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| Taliban seize 22 Pakistani paramilitary fighters Posted: 27 Dec 2012 07:50 PM PST PESHAWAR, Dec 28 – The Pakistani Taliban have seized at least 22 men from a regional paramilitary force in attacks on three checkpoints in northern Pakistan, a regional official said yesterday. Taliban and other Pakistani sources put the number higher. The raids close to the provincial capital of Peshawar follows two high-profile attacks in the ... 
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| Syria envoy calls for political change to end conflict Posted: 27 Dec 2012 06:57 PM PST BANGUI, Dec 28 – The international envoy seeking a negotiated solution to Syria's 21-month-old conflict said yesterday political change was needed to end the violence which has killed 44,000 people. Speaking in Damascus at the end of a five-day trip during which he met President Bashar al-Assad, Lakhdar Brahimi called for a transitional government ... 
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| After Newtown, Americans want their guns, with some restrictions Posted: 27 Dec 2012 06:36 PM PST NEWTOWN, Dec 28 – Nearly seven in 10 Americans support the idea of placing strong or moderate limits gun ownership following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, a Reuters/Ipsos poll said yesterday. But laws that permit citizens to carry concealed weapons or use lethal force for protection while in public were just as popular, the ... 
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| Secret UK files lift lid on Thatcher-Reagan Falklands contacts Posted: 27 Dec 2012 05:30 PM PST LONDON, Dec 28 – Britain's former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher wrote an emotional letter to US President Ronald Reagan during the 1982 Falklands War calling him the "only person" who could understand her position, formerly secret documents showed today. Newly declassified files from 1982 lift the lid on contacts between the two leaders over ... 
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| Syria envoy calls for political change to end conflict Posted: 27 Dec 2012 10:32 PM PST BEIRUT (Reuters) - The international envoy seeking a negotiated solution to Syria's 21-month-old conflict said on Thursday political change was needed to end the violence which has killed 44,000 people. 
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| India gang-rape victim battles against the odds: medics Posted: 27 Dec 2012 10:57 PM PST An Indian gang-rape victim was "struggling against the odds" to survive on Friday after suffering a heart attack and brain injuries, as medics criticised a decision to fly her to Singapore. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now | ||
| US economy to continue slow, painful recovery in 2013 Posted: 27 Dec 2012 10:55 PM PST The U.S. economy is poised to continue its painstaking slog toward recovery, with no immediate growth spurts for 2013, according to experts. | ||
| Jewish provocateur skewers Germans in new book Posted: 27 Dec 2012 10:32 PM PST Israeli-born, New York-based writer Tuvia Tenenbom likes to provoke and has landed his biggest bombshell yet with a book arguing that the vast majority of Germans today are secret anti-Semites. | ||
| Posted: 27 Dec 2012 10:30 PM PST Central Ljubljana, Slovenia, during year-end festivities and celebrations. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now | ||
| VIDEO: US winter storm claims more lives Posted: 27 Dec 2012 10:33 PM PST At least 15 people are reported to have died in a severe winter storm in the United States. | ||
| VIDEO: Anger over priest's violence views Posted: 27 Dec 2012 10:54 PM PST A priest from a seaside village in northern Italy has provoked outrage by saying that women who are victims of domestic and sexual violence often bring the abuse on themselves. | ||
| VIDEO: 2012: Coding, robots and patents Posted: 27 Dec 2012 04:00 PM PST The BBC News Website has hosted its first two-part 'Tech Summit', inviting three experts from diverse fields to offer their reflections on the year just past, and the next few years ahead. | ||
| VIDEO: Choking panda saved by surgery Posted: 27 Dec 2012 09:34 AM PST A panda in a Chinese zoo is feeling much better after having a piece of steamed corn bread removed from its oesophagus. |
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